Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even the greatest marathoner could keep up that pace forever. If the virus reproduced very quickly, it would eventually exhaust the body's defenses. At least that's what Ho and Shaw thought. The trick to proving their idea was to find some way to suddenly stop the treadmill. If you did that to a jogger, he would lurch forward. Similarly, if you stopped HIV's cycle of reproduction in the blood, the immune system should suddenly rebound. By measuring that rebound, the scientists hoped to figure out just how rapidly the virus had been reproducing...
...says Ducks general manager Jack Ferreira. "He has that sixth sense of knowing where everybody is, that great anticipation." Last year Kariya scored 50 goals, assisted on 58 others and won the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship. He is a student of juggling. Says Kariya: "I can do the [trick] where you take the bite out of the apple as it comes by." He has already taken a pretty big bite out of hockey...
...probably get them from TV, like everyone else. One week on Friends, when David Schwimmer's all-thumbs buddies offered to baby-sit his infant son, he said, "I don't think so"; an hour later, Jerry Seinfeld told an unctuous magician who asked to borrow him for a trick, "I don't think...
...first round of the NCAA championships, Harvard won rather dramatically. It was relatively chilly out and a little damp, but a rainbow stretched over the field in the second half. Harvard doesn't send out cheerleaders to soccer games, just rainbows. Needless to say, the rainbow did the trick. The next game didn't go nearly so well, and rain poured down. No top level Harvard dean bothered to stop the rain and that was that...
...study] shows that viruses can trick the immune system by preventing molecules from getting to the surface that the cell needs to fight the virus," Rapoport said...